Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-17

dance with it, and all such who Go not,
simply fall off from the Church and are,
IL not formally, then 60 ipso facto under
its ban. The aforesaid dogma caused
not alone Prof ssor DR.. Dolliuger
out also many scholars and sayants
and great many previously to
it, good Catholics 10 reDounce the Roman
Catholic creed, but now, after all, the
church, purified of a goodly portion of
bad element, stands to-day greater and
granGer yet, and will, as her name cath
Ole, which means universal, says, fully
carry out her principles regardless of in
curing the displeasure of sny part of its
members, say for instance ofthe Catholics
amongst the knights of Labor. 1t is OBJ
vious end can be easily disceTned from
the goings on in the matter in New York
city that DR.. McGlynn is serving IN the
campaign Of Henry George, who tries to
blind the masses and especially the
thoughtless Catholic element in these
masses with what influence and
supposed authority this downfaIlen
priest may have upon them, and who is
reaping q certain success from the low
minded and uneduCated classes by
such infamous and crooked means,
bus it is obvious to pure minded and
educated people also that, seeing that
Henry George does as his Lieutenant
employ this DR.. McGlynn in his capacity
as an communicated priest and vita
the int of making all possible cap
ital from this very same fact, he tries to
re- en- MS reforms by foul and despicsbie
means, and that, consequently, his dec
trines cannot be noble and pure. To say
more about the social policy Of Henry
George would not be in order here, as I
have ~ deal with It only in ref
e7cnce to Dr.. McGlynn, the Roman
Catholic priest, first, temporarily
suspended, and then, on his refIsa
to explain his conduct, definitely eXcom-
muaicsted, whom the church would never
have denied the right 10 resign from aud
renounce it, and then to propagate those
new ideas ABOUT laud and labor or any
other notion, INT lrhOm she CDuid nat TIL
crate 10 dJ 50 II his r0pdcjty as priest,
because the Holy See always did mold
and, apparently, as the matter shows,
does yet-that priest should keep sloOf
from politics and leave it to the bishops,
eventually 10 the Pope, to interfere in such
matters if they deem il wise and proper
to do so. DR.. McGlynn knew this and
had to act accordingly; he, as an indi-
yidual, certainly was allowed to have his
OWE opinions, to cling to the same and
defend them by his braipWoIk and deeds,
but in his double capacity as q citizen and
q priest he was not allowed TO use
this his latter and official capacity as a
cover to the Outbursts of his political or
social policy. l do not know, but | am
convinced, that not alone many a true
member Of his proper parish flock, but
men OF recognized standing must have
approached him on this subject and urge d
him to stand true TO his oath Of Obedi-
ence to his hierarchiCal superiors and not
to NEEDLE worldly affairs with his teach
ingS, with other words, to keep politics
out CT the church. Why /, who have heard
him preach good many times, who for q
long time went regularly every Sunday TO
the high mass il his church, and who
hav1 had a profound respaC. and
esteem for him besides admiring
bis great genius, would have begged him
on my knees land l 90 down on them
only on extraordinary OCCssiOns) not 20
deviate from the right path, If 1 would
have had the opportunity to do so, not
that l never have belonged
to his fGck proper, but l did belong 10
81. Stephens parish at MayenCe, Ger
many; and now suppose our then pastor, |
the late Father MeIZ, God bless his soul! |
whom we sll venerated, would have been !
tempted in this, or any other way, by the |
devil in any shape and form, what do you !
think his true parishlOneTs would have |
done? We would have done very sim |
pie snd easy thing, we would have come |
ID him as his c5ildrel-and he |
was our father in spir-
tual sense - and with words |
Of love would have TemOn- |
strated with him and would |
have made him pledge US his word that, I
If not for his own sake, then for the sake |
Of US, his children the parishiOneTs, he |
would abstain from bringing such shame |
and disgrace upon him and indirectly |
upon us, whom he had reared. Now DO |
you think he possibly cOul1 have re- |
fused Us? l certainly will not infer that |
DR.. MCGlynn's paTishiOners should have |
acted in such q manner, the relations be- |
tween priest and his flock being entirely |
different in this new country of the al |
mighty dollar, where the men Of standing |
are, or nearly all of them are, self-made |
and think themselves smarter than the |
rest of humanity and suppose they have |
no peers beside them, compared with |
those in countries settled thousands OF |
years ago-though stability cannot fail to |
bring a change about, and when civiliZl-
ton will have marched on with its in
teIlible step another lapse OF time, then |
2 self-mede man will be Classed in this |
not otherwise, as he is in |
Europe, Paryenu. Now Mr. X. T., you |
cannot style DR.. McGlynn ga patriotic !
priest" because patrio tism he did not |
prove any, but you may style him a |
socialistic or politician ex-priest, and you |
certainly fall short in granting the right |
to speak out and proclaim his opinions to |
3 citizen of these United States IN las !
rapacity Of priest, which in itself de-
bars him from so doing, while you restrict |
my own while am rot incapacitated by
any position, and oiar as think Profess
sor Dr.. DOllinger and Monsieur Loisesu
lex Father Hyacinthe) too good and too
great to be compared with DR..
McGlynn, aside from my per-
sonsl acquaintance with these
gentlemen, have the testimony OF the
learned men, all the world over, on my
side, and your assertion that the tx
of DR.. McGlynn cannot
be made creGitable to the church, will
all over be taken for such as it deserve
Mr.. r. T., you can resd
since yesterday in the newspapers the
full text of DR.. McGlynn's speech on last
Sunday evening, the 10Th, his theatrical
reception by the crowd gotten up for that
purpose, and Judge of his story about that
registered letter. You can see in tO-day's
that he granted representa-
tive of Mr.. Henry Georges paper, the
Standard, au interview which will be
shortly published ct length, and that he
has already consulted three eminent